News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on I still love PHP and JavaScript. Parent comment

Re:I still love PHP and JavaScript by ed25519FUUU on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @08:15PM (#32326055)
Do PHP applications really require no system packages for any use-cases?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:I still love PHP and JavaScript by lmm on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @11:33PM (#32327358)
PHP is pretty batteries-included, sometimes to a fault (it comes with things like 3 different MySQL drivers in the standard library). I'm sure there are cases where you'd want to install a C extension that depended on some system library, but I can't actually think of any right now.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:I still love PHP and JavaScript by asddubs on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @08:54AM (#32331044)
imagick for imagemagick is a common one. but yeah, you can go really far with just relying on php standard features
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:I still love PHP and JavaScript by paulryanrogers on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @08:54PM (#32326366)
What do you mean by system packages? There are PHP packages now and Composer. Though core and its bundled extensions are quite rich. So 3P packages aren't strictly necessary.
[ Parent | on HN ]